The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-01-28
NEWS SUMMARY.


see, was elected senator from that
state, Tuesday.
A. s. Paddock was elected senator
from Nebraska, receiving 81 votes to
80 for McShane, Democrat.
On farm near Elgin. Illinois, a
limited vein of gas was struck by we'll
borers at depth of 120 feet.
Rev. l.. l.. Luse, of Erie, Penn, has
been lodged in Jail on charge of for
gerry committed in Nebraska.
The Republican members Of the
legislature of West Virginia will sup
port General Golf for senator
A bond call amounting to SIS, 1877 900
has been issued. The uncalled 3 Der
cents now aggregate $40.000,000.
The Democratic legislative caucus
at Nashville agreed upon Ex-Governor
Bate as its candidate for senator.
The circulation of the standard sill
yer dollar is steadily decreasing. The
number outstanding is 5S, 634 ,267.
A Washington dispatch announces
that daughter was born to Secretary
and Mrs. Whitney Sunday morning.
One of the best gas wells in Indiana
was developed Monday at Marion by
shooting the bore with nitro glycerine.
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Point resulted in the dismissal of thir-
ty-three cadets who were found def
cient.
A bill to forbid the marriage of in
mates of county jails or pOor-hOuSeS
house.
The ice in the Susquehanna river
near Lock Haven, Penn, is piled
thirty feet high for distance of three
miles.
DR.. G.. Patterson. victim of the
cocaine habit, of Beloit, Wisconsin,
was sent to Jail for twenty days for
vagrancy.
Detroit capitalists intend to organ
iZe company to trade in groceries in
the Lake Superior region and recapture
lost ground.
Twenty citizens of Flagstaff, Arizo-
ma, captured and killed the brothers
Halves for numbering saloon-keeper
named Berry.
The Illinois House, by vote of 119
10 IA, passed bill apprOpriating $780,
0O0 for a monument at Chicago to
Senator Logan.
A charter was obtained at Madison
for railway from Lake Geneva to
Portage. 10 miles, by way OF Elkhorn
and Whitewater.
The widow of Ex-Governor John
Wood, the founder of Quincy, Illinois,
died in that city on Thursday evening,
at the age of 81.
Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, is
about to give $3.50, 900 10 Cornell uni
versity, to enlarge the Sibley College
of Mechanic Arts.
Andrew d. White has given to Cor
nell university his historical library of
thirty thousand volumes, which cost
more than 100000.
William Emerson, an aged inmate
of the almhouse in McDonough county,
ILL.,, died from excitement over the al
lowance of his pension.
The grand jury at Sioux City re-
turned indictments against twenty-one
saloon keepers, eight of whom were
arrested and held to bail.
A brewery in Des Mones opened q
retail trade Monday, and supplied the
thirsty without hesitation, in order to
make new case in court.
The wife of Senator voorhees, died
Friday evening in Washington, Of
acute peritonitis. The funeral was
held in Terre Haute Sunday.
I. b. Pannell, sheriff of Muhlens-
burg country, KY, was shot dead at
Paradise by desperado, whom he
attempted to arrest for murder.
DR.. McCosh states that he has no in
tentlon of resigning the presidency of
Princeton college, but will endeavor to
make it full-fedged university.
The Brewers union of Detroit has
ended long strike by agreeing to re-
onfx nd hoI
taken the place of their members.
"A sentence Of ninety-nine years in
the penitentiary was pronounced
against Sadie Hayes, a. negress, who
killed police sergeant in st. Louis.
Small pox continues to spread in
New York and Brooklyn, and IN epi-
demic is feared. The disease SO far
has been confined to the tenement dis
tricts.
Another dynamite cartridge has
been exploded on the Geary street
cable road in San Francisco. A large
piece of iron was broken out of car
wheel.
The capital punishment commission
appointed by the governor OF New
York is about to report in favor of
discriminating murderers by electric
shocks.
The cabinet crisis in France has
probably been averted by the with
drawal of the supplemental budget of
$75, 900, 900 introduced by the minister
of finance.
The French government is said to be
purchasing large quantities of timber
in Alsace- Lorraine, with the intention
of building barracks ut various points
along the frontier
Abandoned military reservations
comprising seven hundred thousand
acres are about to be surveyed and
plated, preparatory to their appraise-
ment apd sale.
Excitement has been occasioned
among the golfers throughout Scot
land by strike of three thousand
miners at Airdrie for an advance Of
shilling per day.
There are indications of a war of
freight rates between Kansas City and
Ell Paso. The Atchison road IS pre-
pared to meet any cut made by the
Texas and Pacific.
The Michigan house has passed bills
TO break up the stockades In the lum-
Der and mining camps and to prohibit
the importation of Pinkerton detec-
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